Indeed, literal thousands of years of ingrained social privilege and brutal repression of under-castes would tend to have produced nice social benefits for Brahmins.

It's stupid, silly, old and outdated.

Uh, it is. The article lists 7 CEOs. That's hardly statistically significant out of all CEOs in the West, compared with both the number of all ethnicities that are CEOs of Western companies, and potentially also not significant compared with the number of Indian CEOs of Western companies (it gives no data there).

And when you consider it's the caste with the most opportunity, well...you're basically saying that gains by those who had greater opportunity somehow justifies the system that gives them those opportunities. That logic would also support any oligarchy, aristocracy, etc, so long as those in power successfully remained in power.

Yes that is a very level playing field they competed on. Imagine how much even better top talent we'd have for late leadership at aging tech companies if the talent pool was broader.